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Posted by: TJB/914 May 18 2014, 02:22 PM

Hi Bruce,

This is an 914-World commercial request for us 914er's in fly over country. You always have NOS and Excellent parts from your secrete Porsche stash. Local West Coast CA guys know you. but we don't. Tell us more about your parts STASH

Who are you & where do you get all this good stuff??

BTW: I've gotten quality parts & prices from you & so have others.
Please take this as a compliment. forum.

Tom, in fly over country.

Posted by: john914somers May 18 2014, 03:35 PM

Bruce is awesome! Knowledgable and a nice guy, I've seen his secret stash... Amazing!

Posted by: shuie May 18 2014, 03:43 PM

Bruce is a class act. When FAT was building my 2258 he hand delivered several parts to them that were not readily available. Everything I have bought from him has been fairly priced and restored to absolutely perfect like new condition.

Posted by: bdstone914 May 18 2014, 03:45 PM

Hi Tom, and thanks for the plug. I have a huge stash of 914 parts ranging from treasure to trash. I got a big supply from another member who had gotten in way over his head and sold off the entire lot. It took three 6 x 12 foot trailers to remove all the parts and came with five roller cars. Many of the parts and cars were given to me by people who just wanted them gone.

I started prowling Pic a parts yards for 914's ten years ago. Used to be I could find them regularly. Now I am luck to find two or three a year.

From there I progressed into parting out cars. I used to be able to find a $500 nearly every week. Those seem to be drying up too.

Many of the NOS parts come from Porsche swap meets in Southern California. I must give a lot of credit to my son Wes who sniffs out NOS parts for bargain prices like a blood hound. One of the recent finds was a NOS outside mirror for $50. No, it is not for sale.

We look everywhere for parts. All the Porsche forums, Craigslist, old Porsche repair shops, etc.

The current parts supply is housed in a 1,500 sg ft industrial building filling several pallet racks.

I take pleasure knowing I have helped a lot of people complete high quality restorations restorations and keep daily drivers on the road.

If anyone is in the Riverside CA area they are welcome to stop buy the shop an witness the madness.

Posted by: 914Sixer May 18 2014, 08:22 PM

Bruce is right about the NOS parts starting to dry up and the days of $500 cars is now a thing of the past even here in Texas. The bad part now is you have to do 10-12 hr turnarounds just to pick up rollers.

Posted by: cgnj May 18 2014, 08:47 PM

I guess Hare Killer. What do I win?

Posted by: pete000 May 18 2014, 10:43 PM

I always ask Bruce first. 99% of the time he has what I am looking for...

Posted by: Larmo63 May 18 2014, 11:03 PM

Bruce has been helpful on my car from the very start. I probably owe him "consultation fees" because I call him (every day) too much. Very fair on prices and my 914 wouldn't be as complete without his parts. Thanks, Bruce!

Posted by: BuddyV May 19 2014, 01:20 AM

Let's end this thread before "Bruce" goes the way of an early 911 : unobtainable........ can't we keep at least one good secret quiet???

(Thanks for the rear 5-stud hubs, Bruce...... haven't gotten around to opening the package, but they have arrived. Cheers for taking good care of me!)



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Posted by: TJB/914 May 19 2014, 05:11 AM

QUOTE(BuddyV @ May 19 2014, 03:20 AM)

Let's end this thread before "Bruce" goes the way of an early 911 : unobtainable........ can't we keep at least one good secret quiet???

(Thanks for the rear 5-stud hubs, Bruce...... haven't gotten around to opening the package, but they have arrived. Cheers for taking good care of me!)



ps - Motion on the floor to erase this thread

Posted by: boogie_man May 19 2014, 12:02 PM

Bruce has been an amazing asset to have during "our" restoration of my 72. Does awesome cad plating and powder coating work on 5 lug conversions. I wouldn't be where I'm at with-out him and he's put up with a lot of my crap too....




Scott

Posted by: bdstone914 May 19 2014, 01:07 PM

But, but does Bruce have a running 914 or is it on jack stands???

Tom
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It is not on jack stands.

Bruce

Posted by: Millerwelds May 19 2014, 01:25 PM

[quote name='bdstone914' date='May 19 2014, 12:07 PM' post='2039378']
But, but does Bruce have a running 914 or is it on jack stands???

Tom
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It is not on jack stands.

Bruce
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I noticed you did not mention if it was running or not

I have a rebuilt pedal cluster from Bruce and everyone stated it is in better then new condition. Great resource to our 914 community!

Posted by: 7TPorsh May 19 2014, 02:12 PM

Hi Bruce...